Outage: Johannesburg

03:00AM A number of servers are offline, due to a problem affecting Hetzner’s Samrand datacenter.

Update: Hetzner informs me that the issue is due to a power outage, affecting “a large number of rows [of servers]” and that their technicians are working on the problem.

05:40AM Hetzner appears to have fixed their problem, and servers are booting up. There will be degraded performance (sluggish websites, timeouts) until disk I/O settles down within 30 minutes or so.